The Conundrum of Combat

The Conundrum of Combat

Keith Nightingale Keith Nightingale

Keith Nightingale

发布日期: 2020年8月1日
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Here I am.

Why?

How did this happen?

I wanted it.

I don’t now.

Didn’t think too much then.

Now I think too much.

This is mortally real.

I will perform.  

I will do what I must.

We will prevail.

My honor and self-respect.

I think too much when I have time.

I think of moments that may be.

Darkly.

I have seen them for others.

Life is of moments, and I want a lot of them.

Life has definite limits here.

We seek the condition—for the other guy.

Here is where I thought I wanted to be.

Maybe not now.

But I drive on.

I must.

I want to leave.

I can’t.

They are here and depend on me.

We will leave together or not at all.

Peace must prevail.

Meanwhile, I will kill what I can.

The conundrum of combat.

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